You can't offer "free" without making money in some other fashion.
It's clear on the website, you can either use the free plan, or you
can pay for it and get more bandwidth/space. If I can attract people
to the server via the free hosting, they can choose to sign up for a
paid account.
Based on what I saw last Friday along with the lack of support, etc, it
was a very valid judgement. I can see you changed a few things since
then.
Where was the lack of support as I explained; knowledge base and
server status was just being updated and installed.
I have updated it and am always continuing to do so in order to move
forward. As I said, it is a free account and if you wish to sign up,
that's your choice, if you don't, again, same. My post was not an
advertisement, but a laid back offer to the community i.e other
developers or some one wanting to post up a blog etc. I have taken
your criticism and addressed these issues that appeal to a client like
you.
If you were to create a forum that generated traffic, obviously a paid
solution would be needed as you'll most likely exceed the bandwidth.
In which case, you can either upgrade the plan, go dedicated, or even
if you wish another provider. You're in control. I wouldn't offer a
misleading service to the public and don't intend to do so.
If you're in a "too good to be true" etc etc, that's up to you. It was
more of a personal decision to give some thing back as I'm already
content with where I stand in the industry.
Raymond: Webhosting and domain registration are different. As I said,
domains are managed by ICANN and need a fee. You can easily get a
domain under .co.cc etc etc, however a .com obviously costs money and
some thing I cannot pass on for free. It is a fee of only $9.95 which
I charge, and I don't profit from it. The domain (.com) points to my
servers which provide the resources to keep your website online.
As with the sign up, you are more than welcome to source another
provider for domain registration any way. Either from a free provider
with .co.cc or one of the popular paid ones namecheap.com